Jan St. Werner

Jan St. Werner is a Berlin-based artist, musician, and composer whose work explores the dialogue between sound, visual art, and architecture. His work has been presented at the Ural Biennial, documenta 14, Lenbachhaus Munich, the Barbican Centre London, DAAD Gallery Berlin, the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) Zagreb, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Chicago Symphony Center, and the Ruhrtriennale. In 2023, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presented his first solo exhibition, Space Synthesis. In 2024, he was one of six artists representing Germany in the German Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Werner has initiated collaborative projects such as the Transnational Sound Initiative and has curated exhibitions and festivals including The Sound of Distance at HKW Berlin and docu/fiction at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He is a member of the electronic music group Mouse on Mars and has collaborated with musicians including Stereolab, Mark E. Smith, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Markus Popp (Oval) as the duo Microstoria. Since 2025, he has been Professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts.